Thread by @el33th4xor

So, the $AVAX community is growing quickly, and there are lots of exciting airdrops. Let’s talk a little bit about airdrop etiquette.

Last week, the @Baguette_avax team began airdropping its native token, $BAG, to validators and delegators securing the Avalanche network. They gave around $750 to each validator and delegator, and it cost only $800 to be eligible.

https://twitter.com/Don_wonton/status/1389241313720250373

Yesterday, @AvalaunchApp followed suit, announcing that it will be airdropping 2,000,000 of its token, $XAVA, to the Avalanche staking community.

https://twitter.com/AvalaunchApp/status/1389249954716078080?s=20

It is excellent to see such rewards distributed to the 900+ full block-producing validators, and 9000+ delegators that are a core part of the Avalanche ecosystem. These are the people who provide security and decentralization to the network.

Thanks to $AVAX validators and delegators, Avalanche has already achieved what many other projects constantly talk about, but fail to materialize. These are dedicated individuals providing a benefit for everyone in the community, and deserving parties for airdrops.

I suspect many other projects will follow this approach and employ the novel airdrop mechanism described here: baguette-avax.medium.com/how-to-claim-y…

Airdrops are kind of like free product samples: a show of good will. Because the space is growing so fast, however, they can end up being quite valuable.

It’s no secret that the first impulse for many airdrop recipients is to sell the “free coins.” But this directly contradicts the premise of airdrops, and I think it’s a bit gauche.

Yes, it’s free money and the recipients can do whatever they like. But they should attempt to use the free coins for their intended purpose, and check out the system that delivered the airdrop. It’s the least a recipient can do to reward creators’ hard work.

This is in no way investment advice, but early sellers also entirely miss the future potential of new applications. People often line up for hours to get access to early tokens, so airdrops are an amazing, valuable gift that should not be squandered.

Overall, Avalanche grows stronger by interconnecting its Dapps and having users interact with as many as possible. Airdrops are a great motivator for forging such connections.

So let’s continue to build cool stuff and distribute coins all around, knowing that the recipients will use these coins to build better connections.